Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-09-30
THE PROHIBITION COLUMN.
4 sERMoN our OF cHURcu.

printing and publishing to his congre-
CATION as rule. In this case he is
kind enough to allow some one else to
do his preaching too. Should he not
appove, he has only to contradict on
another page. | remember once hear
ing sermon young clergyman had
been invited to preach by an old friend
OF his fathers, and when it was over,
the old pastor, who had been taking it
all in most carefully, met the young
man on the pulpit step and said, in his
own gigantic voice, that the whole le-
firing congregation could but hear,
"Young man, | can't thank you for
that scrmon!' when he in his own turn
came the same evening, he not only
did not thank him, but contravelted all
the young man had said. lie had
preached baptisnal regeneration, a
doctrine the old man had in adherence
himself. The baptismal regeneration
] wish to preach, is what every man is
| called upon to perform himself, using ink
| and his own name as the visible sign,
the regenerating effects to follow
shortly in due course, on all his fellows.
This is public service, according to
constitutional (uot ecclesiasticaD law
and canon, and for convenience sake
held simultaneously in all places all
over this great state, the day long ago
announced, viz: the eighth day of
November Let all christians be look
ing forward to this day, as to holy
day like unto but greater than any an
cient Jewish day of holy jubilee when
the brother "waxen poor, and fallen
into decay" be relieved" when the
''slave shall 90 out free, he and his
children with him" Is not this day
of ours to be precursor of these bless
ings to the poverty struck and the
slave that drink has made. Can there
be a christian man with soul 50 dead,
that is not now beforehand praying
that these things may come to pass
This year has been great one for talk
about iubilees. There seems to be nc
certain derivation for the word. The
Hebrew HobH from which some say 1t
comes, suits our purpose best, for it
means to bring or call back. We, with
other nations of the earth, have hied
long enough this old plan, VIZ: giving
the devil in the drink long enough
chain for him to do all this mischief,
provided he pays US a good round sum-
Knowing the capicity of man it is he
himself who raises the cry, 'pay double
quadruple, only leave me my length o.
chain. A curious result. DIR. Cros
by and his crew must find III the MIN
neapolis Daily Press about this very
| thing. 'sThere never has been 81
many arrests nor 50 many convictions
as in the month Of July, and yet TIN
thousand dollar license has gone int
effect" But no wonder, we say, th
devils round sum has gildcd his chain
all along the length. 1t has mad
drinking so very respectable, that it i
a fine thing to drink. But that ''invis
iblc spirit" that puzzled Shakespeare
has puzzled many since, and which 70
want of a better name be called devil
That ''invisible spirit" is still the same
Whether it sparkles and overflows
golden goblet, or covers the bottom O
a dirty tea cup, its power to "stee
away mans brains" and bury up hi
soul is Just the same. This brings m
to nay text, which not being parson
| I did not think necessary to head m
, sermon with. Psalms 92-6. Spurgeo
quotes Hebrew scholar on this an
says, expressiyely David wrote; 9Th
man brute will not know; the fool wi
not understand this. The man-brut
precisely translates the Hebrew words
one whom God has endowed with MAJ
& hood, but who has debased himself
. brutehood;a a man as being of Gods cr
. alton in his own image, but brute, {
being self moulded (shall we say sci
. madel into the image of the baser an
II mails" If the old Psalmist could |
:, amongst us christians u living nearl
: three thousand years later and coul
:, note the rayages in the ''human for
divine" that this invisible spirit h;
i made, how would he apply his old ter
to themg How much more would
/; think it fitted them than the oldworl
II ers to whom he first appGedit. Brut
man, where is the manhood in the ere
ture that bites off his comrades ef
in That props up an old friend against
90 wall, already trembling With paralys
e. and forcibly pours the whisky do'
m his throat until he dies? In anotE
M that in the sacred presence of de
e wife, kickshis little seven year old 6
!; from the room with horrid oathl
mt in one that goes to neighboring to-
es- to hold revelry leaving sick wife a
av three children to starve at home2
ape us, whose homes remains intact and l
To sullied from this ''invisible spirit, is
;s real to us what these horrors si.ni
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